The Inter-university Research Seminar SOCIOSEX schedules new sessions

During the 2016/2017 academic year the SOCIOSEX Interuniversity Research Seminar launched within the framework of the i+d project “The resignification of the woman-victim on social networking sites: implications for the construction of vulnerability and resistance in online activism” led by URJC. Their sessions, which are conducted online, host different presentations and discussions about the most current research in the area of socio-sexual imaginaries about prostitution. There is also room for doctoral theses, final Master’s or Undergraduate dissertations and texts that are related to the subject. In charge of the coordination is team member Diana Fernández Romero, along with Vanesa Saiz Echezarreta, lecturer at the University of Castilla-La Mancha.
During this 2017/2018 academic year sessions have resumed. The first one took place on September 27, organised by Anna Clua from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), with the title “La calle no es tuya. Prostitución en la ciudad revanchista: investigación sobre prostitución callejera en el Barrio del Raval de Barcelona” (“The streets are not yours. Prostitution in the revengeful city: research on street prostitution in the Raval neighborhood of Barcelona”). Upcoming conferences scheduled for the next months are as follows:

– October 18, La prostitución mediatizada. Continuidades y rupturas en la presentación pública del comercio sexual en Argentina (“Mediatised prostitution. Continuities and ruptures in the public presentation of the sex trade in Argentina”)
Dr. Carolina Justo von Lurzer, Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), University of Buenos Aires (UBA)

– October 25, La resignificación de la mujer víctima en redes sociales: perspectiva teórica y apuntes metodológicos (“The resignification of the woman-victim on social networking sites: theoretical perspectives and methodological notes”)
Dr. Sonia Nuñez (URJC) and Dr. Diana Fernández (URJC)

– November 8, Formas de amar en tiempos de neoliberalismo: economías sexoafectivas en entornos petroleros (“Ways of loving in times of neoliberalism: sex-affective economies in oil environments”), Melisa Cabrapan Duarte (To be confirmed)

– November 8, Economías extractivas y economías sexoafectivas: una etnografía sobre el comercio sexual en entornos petroleros (“Extractive Economies and Sex-affective Economies: An Ethnography on the Sex Trade in Oil Environments”), Melisa Cabrapan Duarte 

– November 22, Movimiento de trabajo sexual en España. Narrativas transmedia (“Sex work movement in Spain. Transmedia Narratives”), Elena Martinez (UCLM)

– November 29, La resignificación de la mujer víctima en redes sociales: perspectiva teórica y apuntes metodológicos (“The resignification of the woman- victim on social networking sites: theoretical perspectives and methodological notes”). Dr. Sonia Nuñez (URJC) and Dr. Diana Fernández (URJC)

– December 13 Bonus track. Discussion session of selected texts and presentation of the group’s research areas.

– December 13, Belén Puñal and Ana Tamarit (State University of Milagro (UNEMI), Ecuador.